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CENAZE

THE FUNERAL

Orçun Behram

TR, 2023, 107 Min

Love to the last liter of blood. A hearse driver falls in love with a corpse. Turkish slasher horror that dissects and questions the very foundations the social norms of Turkey.

#feature #horror #dystopia

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Cemal, a lonely hearse driver, crosses the vastness of Turkey in a shabby van to secretly bring the body of a murdered girl, Zeynep, back to her family. But suddenly he hears a rumbling in the trunk and finds the resurrected Zeynep, an undead creature between vampire and zombie – and falls in love with her. Together they embark on a bloody path of revenge, with Zeynep always having to be fed. Orçun Behram stages a virtuoso horror symphony that uses brutal allegories to turn everything from gender roles to value systems in Turkish society upside down and ultimately takes revenge on it with relish.

Text: Joshua Jádi

Drehbuch
ORÇUN BEHRAM

Kamera
ENGİN ÖZKAYA

Ton
MURAT ONUR ÖNER

Schnitt
BURÇ ALATAŞ

Ausstattung
TUNCAY ÖZCAN

Musik
CAN DEMİRCİ

Darsteller
AHMET RIFAT ŞUNGAR, CANSU TÜREDİ

Produzent
ORÇUN BEHRAM

Produktion
LUCIDLAB

Co-Produktion
MÜGE ÖZEN - Solis Film

Orçun Behram - Born in 1987, completed the FAMU one year international programme, cinematography concentration, in 2006. In 2012 he obtained his baccalaureate in cinema from Columbia College Chicago.Establishing himself in Istanbul in 2014 , Orçun Behram has been actively working in various projects as a director and a cinematographer ranging from short films and documentaries to music videos. His first feature ""The Antenna"" has premiered in Toronto Film Festival 2019. The Funeral is his 2nd feature.

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